Gideon Lee

Gideon Lee (27 April 1778-21 August 1841) was Mayor of New York City from 1833 to 1834 (succeeding Walter Bowne and preceding Cornelius Lawrence), and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 3) from 7 December 1835 to 3 March 1837 (succeeding Campbell P. White and preceding Edward Curtis).

Biography
Gideon Lee was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1778, and he moved to New York City and then to Georgia while he was working as a merchant. He settled in New York in 1807, and he served in the State Assembly in 1823 and as an alderman from 1828 to 1830, and he served as Mayor of New York City from 1833 to 1834 and in the US House of Representatives from 1835 to 1837. In 1840, he served as a Whig presidential elector. He died in Geneva, New York in 1841.